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Re:Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
on Sunday July 13, 2025 @04:40PM (#44553537)
I buy some just to support the developer if they are small.
Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Written in Rust
on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @03:56PM (#44381270)
I'd love for an interface like that on VSCode that runs in a terminal even remotely.
Re:Beej's Guide to Git
on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:06PM (#42942641)
And still shoot yourself in the foot.
Re:Bill Atkinson doxxed Douglas Adams in 1987
on Sunday November 03, 2024 @08:43PM (#42037669)
You were spared the killer robot?
Re:Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C?
on Sunday August 25, 2024 @08:50PM (#41352914)
Cross compilation.
Re:After 14 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult
on Friday February 23, 2024 @01:42PM (#39484512)
People are 99% of the problem I have at work. Doing things poorly. Not caring about processes just wanting to get things out the door with little regard to quality unless the customer complains. Abuse of agile has made me hate it. 15-30 minutes a day wasted as the program manager leads it.
Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
on Monday January 15, 2024 @11:35AM (#39002695)
Teaching yourself programming is important on many levels as the job is a continual learning type of job. What you learned 5 years ago might apply today or you may have to learn something completely new to stay on top.
Re:Playstation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from custom...
on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:56PM (#38540023)
They don't want to use the term rent because you would then see it for the temporary period it will turn out to be and not be willing to pay what they want you to pay for it.
Re:Goodreads Is Terrible for Books. Why Can’t We All Quit It?
on Thursday August 31, 2023 @09:55AM (#37337212)
I only use it to track what I am reading and my progress. I don't use it for recommendations from others or to see what the authors I read are doing. Maybe as a social network around books it sucks but as a way for me to track my reading it's fine.
Re:Charles Darwin Ate One of Everything He Discovered
on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:00PM (#37298030)
He traveled on his stomach.
Re:GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses
on Sunday August 20, 2023 @02:22PM (#37201680)
Yeah even Microsoft's compiler aligns values on appropriate boundaries for performance reasons. DWORDs on DWORD boundaries etc. And if you want to pack the data structure to avoid the gaps in structures there are methods to do so via #pragma options. I think their complaining about what was done for performance reasons shows a great lack of overall understanding. More time researching and less time griping would have served them better.
Re:New part day: Finally a 100% new Commodore 64 can be built
on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @10:45AM (#37063496)
You can also use TheC64 (Max) as a USB keyboard to the PC to use in Vice if you decide you want the keyboard and want to take advantage of some of the functionality of the emulators. I found a page that shows how to add a USB connector to the Max to allow this.
Re:Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64...
on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:57PM (#36169260)
When I was at Microsoft during the time I had X86, Alpha, MIPS, PPC (for a short time) and Itanium. We only did the builds for Itanium once in a while because the developers and the testers shared the expensive hardware. I believe the only versions of the product (Systems Management Server) were for the X86, Alpha and MIPS.
Re:Using Google’s code history to write more code
on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:55PM (#36169228)
I also found during these kinds of sweeps large copy and pastes of code. It really lowered my opinion of those working on the same project.
Re:VGA driver using PIO and DMA on the RP2040
on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:54PM (#36169209)
The PicoMite VGA project does something like this as well but has the added benefit of having a very full featured BASIC interpreter built in.
Re:Using Google’s code history to write more code
on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:52PM (#36168460)
When I find one bug I assume it is likely repeated all over the code and I search it out. I have been burned enough times to not consider it a must.
Re:Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers
on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @09:36AM (#36138241)
I miss the documentation that was part of Microsoft MSDN subscription. I now work in a sandboxed environment and cannot access help for the APIs from within that environment so something that I can download in it's entirety and get into that environment would be ideal.
Re:Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it “unpre...
on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @06:33PM (#36131982)
I have asked it to write code. The code looked reasonable but did not work (using a non-existent API or library). I said the library XXX doesn't exist. And it would respond with an apology and a new solution that maybe worked maybe didn't. Sometimes it could pull off a save eventually.
Re:Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64...
on Thursday May 25, 2023 @03:14PM (#36074817)
They were doing Windows NT for the Itanium. They were holding out hoping that this thing would take off.
Re:Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes
on Thursday May 25, 2023 @03:10PM (#36074759)
it would fit easily on audio tape using an 8-bit retro computer more than likely. Babier steps!
Re:Sony confirms its working on a new Playstation portable, codenamed ...
on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @06:53PM (#36064878)
Already bought into the PlayStation Portable and the Vita. I think I'll skip this next one.
Re:Logitech iFeel Mouses (2001)
on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:09PM (#36006862)
The idea was better than the execution sadly. I had one of those mice and it never really felt like you gained much with the vibrations etc. I'm sure had it been more widely adopted it might have become much closer to the promise.
Re:Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics
on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:05PM (#35953751)
No it was Mouser. One of the few places I order electronics parts from. Digikey and Jameco did not.
Re:Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics
on Monday May 15, 2023 @04:04PM (#35953743)
I don't anymore. They were asking for donations about 2 years ago.
Re:Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics
on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:04PM (#35894687)
And back in the peak covid days they asked for donations to keep them alive and operational. They wanted the community to support them based on goodwill and now they seem happy to burn that goodwill to the ground.
Re:Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive?
on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @06:13PM (#35881046)
The recent issues with Samsung's SSD's don't help with those feelings I'm sure. I have a WD-Black 1TB SSD in my system that I built in 2018 and I used it heavily all day long and I have not suffered any issues from the SSD. I also used a MacBook Pro from early 2013 and only recently sold it still going strong with it's SSD (proprietary). I read recently that some HDD were starting to have reliability problems after a few years.
Re:Netflix Loses 1M Users in Spain over Password Policing
on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @04:43PM (#35719727)
Hulu Live TV is even better regarding location. I have it and had Google Fiber and AT&T fiber at the same address. If I watched live on one it would report on the other than the home location changed and it only gives you so many of those for free before they prevent you from viewing the content (Live TV) you pay them for. So it's only IP and no taking into consideration geo-location at all.
Re:Apple’s 40% Plunge in PC Shipments Is Steepest Among Major Computer...
on Monday April 10, 2023 @11:54AM (#35513787)
The new models are so fast it's like magic compared to those older models. Even if they have SSDs.
Re:Apple’s 40% Plunge in PC Shipments Is Steepest Among Major Computer...
on Monday April 10, 2023 @11:50AM (#35513736)
Last year I upgraded from a early 2013 15" MBP to the 16" Max and it's like a whole new world. Way more storage and memory. I can imagine going from the same machine to the M2 would be amazing but from M1 to M2 not enough of a bump to pay the price.
Re:What a good debugger can do
on Friday March 10, 2023 @04:31PM (#35101379)
Yeah I had to debug some code with 5 threads that were supposed to be synchronized through the use of several semaphores that was a bear to pin down.